Simple and inexpensive DIY carnival party games and activities.
Whether you're watching the circus in person, or simply enjoying a circus theme in your home preschool (or classroom!), popcorn is a must!
tholic ABC's Week: 30 Letter of the week: Z Theme: Zacchaeus Bible story Saint of the Week: St. Zita Craft: Zacchaeus in a tree Although I have been finished with my Christian ABC's series for
Here's a chance to do circus activities for kids, be daredevils with today's fun gross motor activities! Jump through the flaming hoops at the circus.
Step right up and join the fun because with these activities, you can build a fantastic circus preschool theme that your students are going to love!
How to Make and Use Singing Rocks (also known as story stones) by Tracy King An easy DIY tutorial for making singing rocks or story stones to teach storytelling, sequencing, improvisation and even OPERA! Great for many themes including: fairy tales, Bible stories, camping, outer space, ocean, Peter and the Wolf, Carnival of Animals and more. No paint pens or Sharpies are needed for this great teacher craft!
Circus Craft: Trapeze Artist I found this awesome trapeze artist craft on Pinterest when we were doing our circus unit. The idea comes from the site, Use Your Colored Pencils. I followed the bas…
This is a guest post by Kathy Crane, who will be contributing a series of posts over the next few months. If you like what you see here, check back frequently for more posts from her. You can also read her blog, Kindergarten Kiosk . I was introduced to the concept of “shared reading” during my first year of teaching when my principal sent me to a professional development opportunity to learn a “new” method of teaching, that I soon found to be priceless. So what is shared reading? Shared reading has its roots in
Whether you are having a party, church function, or school festival. Below are 5 fun games that are fun and easy to play. Also, very inexpen...
Throw a carnival party for kids, complete with circus-themed decorations, invitations, and carnival games.
...
Pool noodle rhythm spinners are a cheap and easy DIY hands-on resource to add to your elementary music classroom!
Free circus printables to color and use for our fun collection of circus crafts for kids or use them for your own circus-themed crafts and activities.
Here's a STEM challenge that kids will love! Challenge kids to design and build their own working carnival games out of cardboard boxes.
Today was all about kangaroos, wallabies, and wallaroos! After teaching about them, we listened to the book Marsupial Sue by John Lithgow. I said listened to because the book comes with a CD of John Lithgow singing the story. The kids really enjoyed it, and it provided a wonderful lesson for them: Always be true to who you are. (Thanks for letting me borrow the book, mom!) And then after the story, the little girl whose grandma lives in Australia (I mentioned her in yesterday's post) had more surprises for us! She brought in Australian money and a real kangaroo hide! I have no idea how her grandmother got this, but it was very cool to see. All the kids had a turn at touching the soft furry side and the smooth leathery side. OK, now on to the art project. I found a coloring sheet of a kangaroo and joey. I cut out the mama and baby so the kids could color them. And then instead of using a paper pouch, I cut them out of felt and let the kids decorate them with glitter glue and sequins. I would have used all different colors of felt, but brown was the only color I had on hand. One girl made her initial (E) on the pouch. How clever! When they dried, the pouch was glued onto the mommy kangaroo, making sure to glue only the sides of it and not the top. That way the joey could fit right inside. As a special surprise, when I put these in the kids' mailboxes at the end of the day, I added a sucker to the pouch! Fun Fact: A kangaroo cannot run or walk on land because its back legs do not move separately. It can only hop. However, if the kangaroo is swimming, the legs can move independently!
pirate printables, pirate worksheets, pirate party ideas
Over the holidays my 3 year old turned 4. Yes. A VERY busy time of year for us! I have really had to make a point of acknowledging this kid's birthday where it lands itself in the middle of the BiGGesT holiday of the year (4 days before Christmas). And although it feels hectic and crazy getting it all together, I don't want to ignore his special day. It's not his fault his parents are stupid and didn't plan ahead! This year the little man decided on a PiRAtE PaRrrtY. So we invited our friends...sent them a message in a bottle (found at Oriental Trading). Loved these because they came with the lables and sand. They also came with the invitation, but I decided to make my own...just so they'd match everything else I was doing. I even burned the edges of the paper for the full effect...it was a pain, but worth it. Can I say, there is a ridculous amount of pirate stuff out there to take advantage of. The kid did make it easy on me in that reguard. Decorations were easy to find, and I actually had a lot on hand and didn't need to go out and buy a ton of stuff. I was able to use the fabric banners from our last shindig. I found somewhere online (can't remember exactly where) where they had a table set up as you walked in the door with all sorts of pirate garb to get dressed for the occation...so I copied. Found these printable hats free online...but I can't remember where. I tried to go back and find them, but couldn't. I hate it when I do that. But I loved the girl skullies with the bows! I found the boys bandanas at Oriental Trading and just used polka dot fabric for the girls. I also made a few felt mustaches on sticks. Which, I was surprised, the girls loved just as well as the boys For the table I used a bit of burlap down the middle with shredded brown paper and coins and jewels sprinkled everywhere. The balloons tied to the chairs added a lot to the decor and the kids loved them. I also used regular old mason jars, filled them with shredded paper and stuck two Jolly Roger flags (Oriental Trading) in them. I also found the treasure map place mats and cute little treasure boxes at OT. The boxes had cute pearl candies inside. Borrowed the big PirAte ship from our toy room. I wanted a little back drop for the serving table, so I used a bunch of scrap fabric I had lying around and pinned it to a bulletin board (we had this party at the church...needed the extra room...dang winter birthdays!). I tried to billow it up so that it looked something like sails on our "ship". I strung a little rope and hung my piRate prints from them with clothes pins. I never did get a picture of the serving table all finished but we had the bucket filled with ice and had Squeeze-Its (or Deadman's Punch) to drink. I made the ship cupcakes and found the awesome sails and cupcake wrappers here. I think these were my favorite part of the party! Something about a cute cupcake. I used this yummy recipe for the chocolate frosting. Mmmm. And the favor bags and favors... The bags were just brown gift bags that I tied a little scrap fabric and burlap onto. I also tied a name tag and a wooden pirate cutout that I found at Joanns. Some of the 'TreASuRes' they found along the way. And finally...the paRrrtY. We started with a relay game where the kids lined up at opposite ends of the room. They had to race to 'walk the plank' then 'swab the deck' and push the 'cannon balls' across the deck to their teammate. We had 12 kids ages 2-5 and most of them were able to handle the game...although pushing those ballons did get a little tricky for some of them. Next we had a TreASuRe HuNt. We started with our maps and our favor bags, then set off to find our loot. My birthday guy showing me his map. Our hunt lead us around the church to different rooms where we found all sorts of treasures. I put a 'clue' (picture of each stop on their map) on each door so they would be able to find their way on thier own. Here they are dashing through the halls... The map lead them right back to where they started...at the BiG treasure box filled with pirate beach balls and ring pops. For our last game we had a TreasuRe DiG. We filled up our big tin buckets with sand (100 lbs each...don't ask me how we got them there!) and buried all kinds of jewels, coins, necklaces and rings. Then I gave each kid a card with the number of jewels, etc. they had to find in the buckets and had them dig for their buried treasure... The FavOriTe game by far. The boys loved digging in the sand, and the girls lOved the jewles! The crazy bunch having their cake and ice cream... The Captain of this ship. The Capt'n...and everyone else opening presents. And a little game of PiRate, PirAte, SkuLLy (or duck, duck, goose) 'til the mom's came to pick up thier little mates. All the mateys and their mustaches. ArrG. It was a fun one to put together, and I dare say the kids had a gOod time.
Printable Activity dice that will encourage imaginative play. Perfect for toddlers and preschoolers. Kids pretend to be animals as they play the dice games
I've learned that I no longer have to do much to embarrass my tween. Just being me (which was once cool in grade school) can cause the child to shudder. So, I now like to torture her with scenarios that totally embarrass her and make her skin crawl. Take today for example.
The simplest ideas are always the most fun. Today I have two posts to share with you that feature some simple Olympic field events. We're sharing these posts as part of Camp Mom 2012 and
Clown Glyph and FREE Word Search I was going to begin this post by saying something like, “Who doesn’t love the circus? Or who doesn’t love clowns!” But I happen to be one o…
Giant Game of Operation: I was recently asked to be in a dunk tank at my elementary school's end of the year carnival. As much as I love being continuously dropped into a tank of cold water by vindictive elementary students, I instead offered to make a game. What I c…
Step right up and join the fun because with these activities, you can build a fantastic circus preschool theme that your students are going to love!
